Example sentences of "[conj] to set [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There will be no attempt to define exactly what art criticism is , or to set out a theory of criticism , beyond the suggestions of some differences in writings on art which have already been made . |
| 2 | In the afternoon session there was an equally irritable wrangle over a proposal to adopt a law on compliance with the constitution , and to set up a committee for the purpose . |
| 3 | It includes a commitment to create five new national parks by 1996 , and to set aside a total of 12 per cent of the country 's territory as " protected areas " for wildlife . |
| 4 | The brief descriptions of the récit and the first entrée ( shown in their entirety in illus.l ) suggest that the opening numbers of the ballet served not only to introduce the subject of the work , but to set up a mechanism for getting the musicians on stage . |
| 5 | And in this case it is particularly acute because to set up a typology in which science correlates with religious moderation risks the objection that what one means by moderation is going to change according to political circumstances . |